Serious question. Would your opinion of marijuana use change if it were given legal status like alcohol? Why or why not?
I had to take a pro-marijuana stance in a forensics debate last weekend, and though I’ve smoked it twice before, I had no qualms taking the opposition. However, my teammate and I had trouble coming up with any evidence to support that marijuana has been the sole cause of any single death in America. Needless to say, the other team blew us out of the water. So I got to thinking: Why is marijuana illegal?
Even government study’s have proven it to be safe, but politicians refuse to accept the facts. Marijuana helps more people then it hurts. Alcohol helps no one.
Nov 112010
Weed has recently been scientifically proven to keep alzheimer’s disease, a stroke and some types of cancers at bay, it helps ease headaches and stomach aches, it reduces stress and lowers blood pressure, it increases appetite and reduces nautiousness, it doesn’t cause people to want to commit crimes or violence, it’s not addictive and you can’t die and/or overdose on it.
Meanwhile alcohol causes tons of damage to brain, liver and other vital organs, its been proven to increase the risk of getting various types of cancer and other diseases, it causes people to commit crimes and violence, drunk drivers can kill themselves and others, it causes depression, psychosis and other serious mental disorders, it’s highly addictive and you can easily overdose and die from it.
How can some people still hate a healthy drug like marijuana in this modern age, but have no problem drinking a few beers or having some shots of alcohol?
Sep 282010
There really has been no proof that I would trust (and if you would you’re just naive) that shows marijuana has any real negative effects apart from the obvious spacing you out. Alcohol has a lot of problems, what with heart/liver problems, a lot of deaths from driving or violence caused by alcohol, or even overdosing and getting alcohol poisoning. Cigarettes are pretty bad too. Both are certainly worse for you than marijuana, yet many people want marijuana to be illegal and alcohol/cigarettes to be legal. Why?
Alcohol is much more harmful, especially if you use marijuana in manner that doesn’t involve smoking it.
There are many people who drink beer and smoke cigarettes everyday, but who judge people who use marijuana as evil scumbags. What is it that gives alcohol users this moral advantage over marijuana users?
I know that marijuana is illegal, but just because something is illegal does not make it immoral.
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Marijuana has been used by Indo-Europeans for thousands of years.
The other way I have of wording this question is the following: How does the effects of alcohol intoxication on a person and their ability to drive differ from that of marijuana?
Is there any kind of resemblance?
You want to know what I think? Don’t say anything unless it actually answers the question. Stop wasting my time and your time.